Flash to the desktop: Adobe Apollo

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

Apollo is a cross-operating system runtime that runs outside of the browser .... We ... are confident that we will be able to quickly get significant distribution of the Apollo runtime.

Apollo is targeted at developers who are currently leveraging web technologies, such as Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript and Ajax techniques to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications.

Apollo will provide a set of APIs to make it easy to develop connected applications that work while offline.

2 comments:

brad
said...

Yet another worthless, ill-conceived "platform" that does nothing more than provide a bad layer of abstraction allowing you to bring the most limited and worthless web principals (html/javascript/flash) to the desktop. No thanks.